Unit 10

Question 0

Panama Canal

Answer 0

A canal that spans from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean made by the U.S. and France… Panama now has control.

Question 1

Manioc

Answer 1

A root vegetable that is a staple in the jungle diet.

Question 2

Quechua

Answer 2

The Incan language

Question 3

Quipu

Answer 3

Knotted string used to keep records

Question 4

Intihuatana

Answer 4

A stone used for a special ceremony where the Incas would “Tie the sun” to the stone

Question 5

Ombu

Answer 5

A tree-like Plant

Question 6

Savannah

Answer 6

Are between a rainforest and a desert

Question 7

Isthmus

Answer 7

A narrow strip of land with water on both sides, that connects two larger bodies of land

Question 8

Cultural Hearth

Answer 8

A place from which important ideas are spread

Question 9

Murals

Answer 9

A form of painting on a wall or rock surface

Question 10

Entrepreneur

Answer 10

A person who starts a buisnessd

Question 11

Undocumented

Answer 11

Lacking the official papers required for legal immigration or residence

Question 12

Cartel

Answer 12

A group that controls a product’s price and limits competition

Question 13

Location Question

Answer 13

Where is it?

Question 14

Place question

Answer 14

What is it like?

Question 15

H-E Interaction Question

Answer 15

How do people interact with and change their environment?

Question 16

Movement Question

Answer 16

How are people/places linked by communication and the flow of people, ideas, and goods?

Question 17

Region Question

Answer 17

What are their unifying features and how do they form or change over time?

Question 18

Olmec

Answer 18

Made the first rubber balls for the game

Question 19

Teotihuacan

Answer 19

Played a version of the ballgame using bats

Question 20

Maya

Answer 20

“Ballplayer” was among the ceremonial titles of the king

Question 21

Toltec

Answer 21

Influenced the Aztec ballgame

Question 22

Huastec

Answer 22

Made pottery figures of male and female ballplayers

Question 23

Aztec

Answer 23

Xochipilli, the patron god of the ballgame

Question 24

Spanish Conquest

Answer 24

Abolished the game because thought to be pagan ritual

Question 25

Why do many people who have gone to live in Brazil's cities return to its rivers during hard times?

Answer 25

Everything is free

Question 26

Why do people go to the cities in Brazil?

Answer 26

Schools and hospitals

Question 27

What is the language of Brazil?

Answer 27

Portugese

Question 28

Why are Brazilians not allowed to go near the county's small tribes of primitive Indians?

Answer 28

Fear of disease

Question 29

About 1//5 of all the fresh water on earth can be found where and during what?

Answer 29

The Amazon River at the peak of rainy season

Question 30

What is an example of absolute location and what geographic theme is this?

Answer 30

Coordinates; Location

Question 31

What is an example of relative location and what geographic theme is this?

Answer 31

At the corner of Wildflower and Balsam Way; Location

Question 32

What is an example of a physical characteristic and what geographic theme is this?

Answer 32

Mount St. Helens; Place

Question 33

What is an example of a human characteristic and what geographic theme is this?

Answer 33

John Hancock Building; place

Question 34

What are the three ways people interact with and change their environment and what geographic theme is this?

Answer 34

Adapt, Change, Depend; H-E Interaction

Question 35

Who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 35

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Question 36

Who organized a French company to begin canal work in Panama?

Answer 36

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Question 37

What country began the task of carving a canal through the Isthmus of Panama?

Answer 37

USA

Question 38

What year did the Canal open?

Answer 38

1914

Question 39

Why did it take so much time and effort?

Answer 39

Inadequate machinery and Yellow Fever

Question 40

In what mountain range did the Incas live?

Answer 40

Andes

Question 41

Two advances of the Incas

Answer 41

Roads, and a public school system

Question 42

What are two reasons the people were content living under the Inca king?

Answer 42

They believed he was a descendant of the Sun God and he made sure nobody was starving

Question 43

Inca Capital

Answer 43

Cuzco

Question 44

Mesoamerica Climate Region

Answer 44

Sub- Tropical

Question 45

Driest place on earth

Answer 45

Atacama Desert in Argentina

Question 46

Longest Uninterrupted waterfall

Answer 46

Angel Falls in Venezuela

Question 47

Three groups of islands in the Carribean

Answer 47

Greater and Lesser Antilles, Bahamas

Question 48

3 Major landforms of Central America

Answer 48

Mountainous Core, Caribbean Lowlands, and Pacific Coastal Plains

Question 49

Major export crop of Caribbean

Answer 49

Sugar cane

Question 50

Name of the City considered center of Mayan Civilization

Answer 50

Tikal

Question 51

What was the point of the Mexican Muralist Movement?

Answer 51

To Bring Mexico together

Question 52

What are the stages of the Mexican Muralist Movement?

Answer 52

Spanish Conquest, Porfiriato Dictatorship, the Revolution of 1910

Question 53

Two Revolutionary Artists

Answer 53

Jose Clemente Orozco, David Siqueiros

Question 54

Two reasons Mexico is so polluted

Answer 54

Dog poop and factories using illegal substances for energy

Question 55

Two things Mexico did to improve health

Answer 55

Shut down companies and have no car days

Question 56

Literacy rate in Mexico and U.S.

Answer 56

94% | 99%